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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1958
Page
1
A 220 pound gunman robbed the Iowa Pork Shop on 1900 EF Olive St in Compton Friday night taking 14000 after forcing assistant manager Bob Dan Gable 22 to open two safes. The bandit calmed staff and warned “I don’t want to hurt or kill anyone” while two outside lookouts watched.
The Washington Post reports Secretary of State Dulles told Senate leaders the United States would consider sending American forces to Lebanon to protect lives and property if the Lebanese government requests aid and acts to control interference by Egypt and Syria, a move tied to U N negotiations.
France reels from political crisis as De Gaulle supporters press for a settlement with Pflimlin. Jacques Sous telle arrives in Algeria to pressure the premier while Dulles signals limited U.S. help in the Middle East. The government braces for clashes with rightists as debates loom over De Gaulle’s possible power.
Armed Forces Day activities at Donaldson Air Force Base in Greenville South Carolina were canceled due to a military exercise directed by higher headquarters. The event aimed to showcase the base and its Globemaster transport capability as political tension rose in Lebanon with President Chamoun defending independence against opposition forces.
Six children aged 6, 5 months, 3, 2, 1, and 3 died in a South Phoenix fire. Alfred John Stafford, 9, escaped after saying he lit a kerosene lantern which toppled and ignited the room. Stafford and the mothers, Betty Lou Warrick and Freddie Mae Williams, were in their care. authorities noted the blaze confined to one of eight units as volunteers battled the flames.
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Hartford officials plan to replace the agreement after Fire Chief Henry G. Thomas refused to sign Friday. The contract reportedly included maternity leave provisions that he would not accept.
The Labor Department reported a third straight weekly drop in unemployment benefits totaling 3,194,800 for the week ended May 3, a 124 percent rise from last year. Initial claims, reflecting new layoffs, rose to 408,600 for the week ended May 10. California April employment rose by 11,000 with unemployment falling about 10,090 to 439,000, still double last year’s level and the highest April figure since 1949.
Violent winds battered the Rawa Mazowiecka district in central Poland injuring 15 people and destroying 18 houses. Nearly 100 buildings were damaged as a new storm followed two tornadoes the prior day that killed at least three and injured scores. Damage was estimated at six million dollars.
At Cape Canaveral Florida a GI missile crew conducted the first official launch of the Redstone medium range ballistic weapon. Officials say the 63 foot missile reached space at dusk Friday with indications of a successful flight. The unit, 40th Field Artillery Missile Group, marks a training culmination at Redstone Arsenal Huntsville.
Forecast calls for night and morning low clouds then sun this afternoon and Sunday. Temperatures show little change with a high around five.
Thomas Kilgasky, 20, suffered burns over most of his body after falling into a furnace at a Wilkes-Barre plant. He was rescued by two stokers and rushed to General Hospital in critical condition. U.S. Secretary of State Dulles is expected to visit Brazil in late July to discuss foreign policy and Communist penetration in Latin America with President Juscelino Kubitshek.
Deputies arrested Ernest Cox and Lillie Mae Cox in Firestone Park on suspicion of child neglect. Twenty seven people linked to the family, 24 now living, faced custody. 12 children under 13 were sent to Juvenile Hall as officers described living conditions as nearly unbelievable filth.
Overnight assaults left three men beaten and robbed near Grisinger’s Bellflower drive ins. John W. Grisinger 53 suffered lip injury after three hoodlums ejected him at 2955 Bellflower Blvd. A 28 year old Whlmitnton man endured a broken jaw and knocked out teeth near Grange Ave and 17th St. Cerne Lacy 26 Walk St said he was counted five one dollar bills when attacked outside a liquor store. Robert Salazar 18 Los Angeles was pushed to the sidewalk at Orizaba Ave and Ocean Blvd and robbed of 18. he received scalp and facial cuts. Six teenagers assaulted him atop a beach stairway.
A Danish freighter Olivia Winther with 382 men aboard caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles south of Mobile. The vessel reported heavy smoke from the engine room and cut radio contact. Coast Guard cutters and a Biloxi plane rushed to the scene as the ship had sailed from New Orleans May 1 for Venezuela and was returning to Mobile.
A gasoline tank exploded in a Montmartre garage crumbling a five story building. At least fourteen people died including five children and three firemen. About twenty others were injured as rescue teams searched rubble for more victims. The blast was sparked by an electric meter flare during a gasoline leak incident.
A strong earthquake was felt across El Salvador at 4 30 AM with no reports of damage or casualties.
A smoke pall hung over Ontario as 52 fires burned today in the Lands and Forest Department report. Friday saw 32 new fires, while foresters extinguished 11 fires.
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